Comments on: Photos of standpipes with anti-sitting deviceshttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 15 Sep 2014 23:11:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: David Pescovitzhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-675341
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-675341Thanks for the link to the 2007 gallery of more anti-sit tech! I was looking for this and couldn’t find it.
]]>By: elsmileyhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674830
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674830 hv sm vry ntrstng phtgrphs. Crtnly mr ntrstng thn ths drvl. Cn b smn’s nphw?
]]>By: mondojohnsonhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674591
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674591These impediments bear an uncomfortable resemblance to medieval torture devices such as “the Pear of Anguish”… ouch!
]]>By: jeligulahttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674594
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674594This is reminiscent of cities spending millions of dollars rendering architecture unskatable instead of providing a skate park. Place a bench 20 feet away from the standpipe and nobody would sit on the thing.
]]>By: Cowicidehttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-675107
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-675107good call, i also thought i’d seen this on bb before.
]]>By: MrWednesdayhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674852
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674852Ours, British, that is.
]]>By: Tdawwghttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674597
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674597I always thought those thingys were to keep loiterers from loitering, and to keep folks from hurting themselves on standpipes and, eek, suing the building managers or owners. I love how one’s become a comfy home for someone’s discarded Dunkin’ Donuts cup: ah, endlessly refashionable New York!
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674598
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674598Mentioned earlier http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/17/antisit_technology_p.html
]]>By: yrogerghttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674617
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674617There are a few, yeah. One, if they’re anything like hydrant stems, they’re surprisingly easy to damage. Two, people have an irksome tendancy to treat them as trash recepticles, and stuffing crap inside sprinkler connections has pretty much exactly the effect on firefighting efforts that one might expect it to. And, third, there’s the generalized anti-loitering views, which, yes, certainly include some nasty anti-homeless policies, but come with the added issue that a people also like to use sprinkler connections for drug drops.
]]>By: ryuthrowsstuffhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674626
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674626I’m actually surprised these are all from New York. I’ve lived in and around the city for my whole life, and I’ve never noticed a stand pipe decked out like this. They can’t be that common and the stand pipe is my favorite place to tie my shoes and they all seem to be just out there.
]]>By: ill lichhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674634
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674634That’s art.
]]>By: GlenBlankhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674920
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674920Anon#30:

Hydrants are connections to the water supply. Standpipes are vertical pipes built into a building that save firefighters from having to drag heavy pressurized hoses up multiple flights of stairs.

Think of them as “extension pipes” that, when connected to a hydrant or a pump truck, extend supply hydrants up to all the floors of the building.

(Some of these are not standpipe connections, but rather, sprinkler-system connections. They’re very similar, but they feed built-in overhead sprinklers instead of interior hose connections.)

]]>By: Earle Martinhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674670
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674670The (unfortunately now defunct) urbanist blog Transfer had a regular feature, The Anti-Sit, highlighting examples of these. Here’s an archive link to the whole collection.
]]>By: oh not anymorehttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674425
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674425too bad the final product had an ad above it. a different sort of oppression.
]]>By: johnnyactionhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674428
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674428New York can be hostile to the homeless and if I was homeless there I would go someplace much warmer.
]]>By: Woohoo!http://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674429
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674429The seat was sponsored by a reality firm…It was actually a seat sponsoring a firm reality!
]]>By: Antinous / Moderatorhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674433
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674433They don’t look restful, but perhaps handy for scratching several kinds of itches.
]]>By: Rich Kellerhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674692
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674692My favorites are the Vernian ones with the fins, especially the brassy-looking thing on the right side and the big red one in the middle. It reminds me of some early Soviet Constructivist design that Tatlin could have come up with.
]]>By: Nezritehttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674438
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674438I wish I could see them in a little larger format – this is just a pipe tease!
]]>By: efergus3http://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674441
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674441Ahhhhh, ‘roid removers!
]]>By: kaizahttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674953
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674953Call me crazy, or oversexed or what-have-you, but is anyone else seeing a pairs of breasts (some with nipple-tassles)?

My god Freud would be having a field day with me right now.

]]>By: dainelhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674450
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674450Why is it that they don’t want anyone sitting on those pipes. Are people so fat that they would bend?
]]>By: IronEdithKiddhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674706
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674706I’ve never seen a fire connection that low to the ground. Maybe if they put the connection at 3.5-4 ft, like we do around here, no one would try to sit on them. Too easy?
]]>By: rrhhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674475
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674475I am kind of interested in this kind of design, where it’s actively trying to prevent certain kinds of usage. Like benches made so they aren’t *too* comfortable, or the anti-skateboarding nobs, or speedbumps, or those entrances that will let a pedestrian through but will catch up a bicycle.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674481
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674481…but none with an anti-shitting device!
]]>By: neuroluxhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-675003
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-675003Aren’t standpipes less comfortable to sit on than the benches made to feel uncomfortable anyway?

I hope they don’t do something to the sidewalk to keep people from sitting on it.

]]>By: Daemonhttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674493
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674493So, is there a sane reason why sitting on these would be prohibited, or is are they just insane?
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674501
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674501How about sticking them under ground with a brightly colour drain cover over top? That’s how all the British ones are – which is the better system?
]]>By: No223http://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674502
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674502This makes me think of Posterchild, the Torontonian street artist.

]]>By: IamInnocenthttp://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/photos-of-standpipes.html#comment-674509
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-674509I don’t know how redundantly sadistic contraptions can be qualified as “creative”. There are an infinite number of ways to keep people from sitting that aren’t hurtful and that would be more aesthetic and actually creative.
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